Word: sprouted
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...zebrafish, the Hox genes switch off earlier, perhaps to ensure that a flexible fin ray (useful for swimming) will form in the place of feet. Duboule speculates that if these genes could be tricked into staying on just a bit longer, the fins of the zebrafish might sprout appendages suggestive of primitive feet...
...distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...
...meditations on the life of the spirit. If the line between fact and fiction seems to blur, Allende explains, "magical realism is not a literary device; it's how I live." Growing up in Santiago, she remembers the great aunt "who at the end of her life began to sprout the wings of a saint," and the clairvoyant grandmother who, Allende insists, could move a sugar bowl across the table with her mere gaze. And she tells of how, at eight, she was molested by a fisherman and found him dead the next morning...
...week's end, it was unclear whether the Seven Months' War is really over or whether The Baseball Encyclopedia would sprout 600 new names this week...
...birds will be chirping and the trees will sprout more buds, but a week off from school-work will not mean a week of rest and relaxation. Instead, the Crimson (2-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy) will bus down to Princeton tomorrow to take on the defending NCAA champions and top team in the nation...